After moving up the Rickety steps and coming out on the battlements Zedekiel is able to see one structure made entirely of wood. Unfortunately it's right by the front gate.
Lukasz there is no door to the outside here.
Following Zedekial up the tower to the battlements, Isabella glances over the edge into the sea before looking out over the prison grounds.
She slaps the stone sharply, drawing the man's gaze back from the ramparts. "Good idea. A fire in the kitchen will be an adequate distraction to cover our escape, and may provide an explanation for the three poor souls that lost their lives in that room."
She chuckles softly as they head back down to the others and elaborate on the plan. "As soon as we get a flame going in the kitchen, we can run back up the tower and along the battlements to the front gate, as we originally planned. Hopefully, if we move fast enough, we'll be at the gate by the time the guards notice our distraction."
Isabella sneaks back to the kitchen and checks for any activity since they blocked the inside door. Noticing no one inside, she slips in and begins gathering everything flammable in a pile near the fireplace.
Nope. Much much worse. But less disgusting. You do so, I assume you're gathering the scattered wood Grumblejack kicked out?
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Yeah, Craft Alchemy has nothing to do with that. But you find sufficient material. What's your specific thought with the strategic placement besides setting the kitchen on fire.
Knowledge Engineering Or nature role please.
You're able to remember the way a fire spreads and arrange the materials in a way that will seem natural. To do so you have to tug various pieces of furniture you previously moved back into approximately the same configuration. It takes about seven minutes to do this.
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Dexter assist with moving the furniture into place.
Lukasz lends his strength to moving furniture about while suggesting that the goblins keep watch for any guards in the area.
The moving is done. Kind of waiting for you guys to do something else.
Once everything is moved as to the specifics set by Isabella, Dexter finds some flammable materials and sets the fire.
"Time to go".
No. You didn't see any.
Dexter heads back to the outside and fresh air hugging the walls to the building.
He turns to Isabella, "Is it wise to climb the tower again or will we just place ourselves in a bad way? Perhaps through the courtyard and to the front gate makes more sense? We can then use the window to get through the gate?"
Dexter searches around cautiously, Perception
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You hear the alarm being raised with a signal horn, dogs start barking from the direction of the front gate. The fire has been discovered before it could fully start, but that doesn't mean the guards can get it out quick enough. All you know, is this who area is about to become a hive of activity.
Isabella nods to Dexter, sparing a moment's glance to ensure the flame would take. "Well past any such time." She snaps her fingers once as she passes the goblins, patting Leekoo on the head. "I think the world will find we were never truly meant to be here, the eight of us. That is why we must leave this place as we are." She glances once more at the fire as she steps out the door.
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Isabella hisses at Dexter over the blaring of the horn, noting the barking of multiple dogs near the gate. "Our distraction may yet work. It might be too much to hope for now, that any guards on the walls will come down, but moving straight from this place to the gate is - at this moment, certainly - suicide."
With that she moves with stealthy purpose to the tower and the battements above.
Zedekial follows Isabella closely, the danger of their escape, and her taciturn efficiency obviously eliciting more than passing interest from him.
Lukasz nodded his head, holding the coiled rope and following after Isabella. Scanning his new associates, he sought out the most injured, spending the small reserve of divine energy he had on curing that individual.
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"Leekoo Weekoo say we go. Leekoo Weekoo not go slow," Leekoo said as he followed Isabella.
Bleeps, goblin pirate, trailed behind, his eyes constantly straying back towards the flames. He fell further and further behind the others, until the goblin's love of fire grew too much for his little goblin heart. With an excited yell, he ran back to the burning kitchen and almost seemed to fly into the flames. A draft of hot wind carried his makeshift hat away, dropping it at Leekoo's feet.
Bending over, Leekoo placed the captain's hat on his head and gave a smirk. "Leekoo Weekoo captain now. Leekoo Weekoo show them how." And with that, Leekoo continued his journey to freedom.
Dexter nods to Isabella and follows her to the Tower.
Stealth
You get back to your previous position unseen. You see no guards at the gatehouse right now, but the darkness and distance makes it hard to to tell.
Looking back down toward the kitchen, Isabella watches the light from their distraction fire, looking for activity from the guards. "Shame about the Captain." She says, gazing toward the flames for a moment.
"It's too far to be certain, but I believe we may now have a clear shot to the gate. Would you care to take the lead again, Captain Leekoo?"
She starts moving toward the gatehouse, keeping a low profile behind the walltop battlements.
"If all goes well, hopefully we can get over the wall at the gate, and make our way across the bridge to freedom."
Yes, it does appear to be possible. And a perception check is not going to help on seeing things at the gatehouse, by rules it's a 40 DC from where you're at.
You have to get fairly close before you can see them, but they stand upon the roof of the gatehouse.
The two guards face the fire when one of them notices a shadow moving along the wall, this eagle eyed archer immediately turns and spots Captain Leekoo, calling out a warning, his partner immediately grabs a horn and sounds the alarm, soon several other calls sound back as the guard who saw Leekoo draws an arrow and shoots at the goblin.
Despite his excellent shot the force behind the arrow is mostly negated by Leekoo's armor, the only thing you're sure of now is that the guards are now on high alert.
With the jig up, Lukasz made a break for the main gate, preparing the last remaining patch to use, should they need it, and keeping his shield up against any incoming arrows.
Dexter follow Lukasz drawing his dagger, "Let's hope that window allows us to get through the gate!" he whispers harshly into his fellow inmates ear.
He motions for Grumblejack to follow knowing that now, the group will sorely need the might of that Ogre.
Luckasz and Dexter run for it, soon meeting up with Leekoo, Grumblejack follows them, more headed towards the fight than running from danger.
As Leekoo pointed out, when you reach the gatehouse, you realize there is no route inside from here. Grumblejack growls out a plan of his own. Hand rhyming beastie bit of rope I throw him and then we hope. He points at towards the roof. Something in his tone suggests he'd care little if Leekoo where to die up there.
Dashing to keep up with the others, Isabella growls at the call-and-response of the horns. "We need to get to the other side of this gatehouse before the other guards arrive and turn this wall into a deathtrap."
She stares blankly at the ogre for a moment, before shaking her head and turning to Dexter, Lukasz, and Leekoo "We can't afford such a risky plan. If Leekoo survives the throw, and and we can use the rope to get up there, we could still be too slow to keep the guards from running him through. We should use the window to get into the gatehouse, and off this damn wall, and then figure out a way to the other side from there." She nods to Dexter. "Seeing how the time for silence has passed, it's probably best the ogre takes the lead now."
She hugs the wall of the gatehouse, hoping to avoid the guards' arrows by staying out of their line of sight.
Alright, for reference this is how we're doing battles from now on, it will be split up in several groups, in this case two. The guards get to go first, then the rest of you get to go, Leekoo is familiar with this and it works well, you don't have to wait on each other.
The second guard turns towards you his bow at the ready.
The two of them both shocked to see the ogre shoot him first.
Their terror causes their shots to go wide.
"Lets move. Lukasz, make us a window. Grumblejack, you're the first one through." Isabella whips one of the kitchen knives up at the guards, biding time before their exit appears.
It's not improvised, it acts as a dagger and thus has a range of 10 feet
The knife gets slapped away with a bow tumbling down into a court yard.
Dexter holds his dagger hoping that Lukasz and the window get them out of this jam but knowing he may need it.
Perception
The gatehouse juts forward obscuring the path, what there is of the island is barren and jagged, you could try to land there and the rope would reach but moving through the area would be extremely perilous and possibly slow you down enough to get a contingent of guards in place to take you down.
Grumblejack looks down at Leekoo as he tries to rip a piece of the masoned wall off the wall to throw at the archers. Little bigmouth want to fly, Grumblejack be happy to comply.
As the rest of you distract the guards Lukasz runs forward with the window slamming it into the side of the building a window appears in the side of it, big enough to be comfortable for small creatures and a squeeze for medium creatures. You hear people running up steps in the tower behind you. One thing's for sure, grumblejack isn't going with you through this way.
Dexter turns to the Ogre, "You hold them here on the wall and we will get these doors open!"
Dexter will squeeze through the window and look for the stairs leading up, seeking to dispatch with the archers before they realize what is happening.
As Dexter makes a run for it the two guards again shoot, one aiming at him, the other at Izzy but both again miss.
Watching the arrow intended for her shoot past, Isabella gives Grumblejack a hearty slap before following Dexter through the small window. Taking stock of their new surroundings, she also looks for a way up to the archers.
"Come Leekoo!" She calls back through the opening, also giving Grumblejack as much encouragement as the situation allowed; "Fight through them if you can, ogre, and meet us at the front gate to earn your freedom!"
It's a shame to lose our newfound muscle in such a way, but he may buy us enough time to finally escape this insipid place.
Lukasz climbs through the portal as well. It lets out into a largly empty room, the arrow slits within it would allow some skilled archers to protect the prison from outside and inside forces. on either end are 2 ladders, one going up to the bottom level, and one going up to the roof.
Dexter turns to the rest, "Two of us up and take the archers, two of us down and secure the gate".
Dexter rushes up the stairs looking to take the guards unawares if possible, he does not want guards with their bows firing at the during an escape...
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Leekoo cackles quietly with glee as he jumps through the magic hole in the wall. If only he had magic like that before...
As he went through, he noticed that the room had two exits, and walked over to the ladder going up. "Leekoo Weekoo go up high? Leekoo Weekoo make them die?" he asked Isabella. She was good to the little goblin, she knew Leekoo was special.
You cannot. You hear a roar from behind you as two arrows hit their mark in the ogre. He stumbles and if any of you are paying attention you see Zedekiel fall off the wall as Grumblejack'You cannot hear the thud as he hits the ground below.
Your guys turn.